How to portray a Spartan king from the classical era?

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Thanks for your replies again guys.

Transverse crests are actually pretty common on blackware vases, especially if we included the double-crests that emerge like horns from the sides of helmets and meet in the middle.

I think that I'm going to stay with the transverse one.

Again we cannot associate it with Agiadae or Eurypontidae households but they are not ahistorical.

Then is there a known symbol for either the house of Agiadae or Eurypontidae?

Most people think the Spartan kings bodyguards were a big unit because of ambiguous text from Plutrarch's life of Agesilaos. From Plutarchs Morals we indirectly know that they had to be Olympic champions and they were two probably symbolizing Castor and Polux

I see, so he would have a big bodyguard unit, but 2 men of the bodyguard unit would probably fight right beside him, wearing the Bodyguard shield emblem?